Cantigas/Cancionero

Lyrical and life-cycle songs structured in stanzas. Some are sung freely, while others play roles in life rituals, especially the many stages of marriage, including ritual bathing (mikve), dowry, farewell to parents, and the wedding ceremony. Like Romancero, these songs primarily belong to the women’s domain.

Clear

Filters

Reset

Filtered (70)

Filters

Reset all×
Song Renewal×

Song

Ethnographic(140)
Song Renewal(70)

Academic title

Congregation

Genre

Life Cycle

Yearly Cycle

Lyric/love Songs

Lyric/Love songs(14)

Informant / Performers

Show (70)

Cancel

Ni blanca sos

From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013.

Non pases por la mi sala 1

From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 2, 2009 A wedding song portraying a conversation between an overprotective, jealous mother and her son (or daughter’s) lover, whom...

Non pases por la mi sala 2

From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 A wedding song portraying a conversation between an overprotective, jealous mother and her son (or daughter’s) lover, whom she is trying to dissuade from...

Oy, que buena que fue la hora 2

From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 A dialogue between groom and bride in alternate stanzas, this wedding cantiga structured in a Balkan asymmetrical meter of 9/8 (2+2+2+3), , describes the gifts that the...

Oy que casas, oy que buena 3

From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 Here are two consecutive Bulgarian wedding songs, the first describes the beauty of the bridal home and the importance of dancing and celebration, and...

Poco le das, la mi consuegra 3

From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Kobi Zarco, Orit Perlman: voice Yarden Erez : ud, guitar, gumbush; violin, keyboard and arrangements Zeev Yaniv : darbuqa, sonaja, bendir, cajón This song was performed at...

Poco le das, la mi consuegra 4

From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 This song was performed at the exhibition of the bride’s dowry, as mocking dialogue-dispute between the groom´s mother and the bride´s mother, the two...

Rashelika

From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. The poem describes a playful encounter between a young woman and a young man, followed by a glimpse of lively social life among youths gathering to flirt, socialize, and...

Salgas, madre 2

From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This song was traditionally sung to the groom’s mother when she welcomed her new daughter-in-law during the bride’s reception by her husband’s family. Lyrics: Salgásh, madre, afuera...

Si de la kabeza me keres

From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. Spoken in first person by the bride to the groom, these are the wedding gifts the groom will give to the bride if he loves her.

Si este nino se durmiere 2

From Merendjenas, Orit Perlman, 2023 This beautiful lullaby with Spanish roots, is unusual since very few true lullabies exist in the Judeo-Sephardic repertoire since typically Romansero function as lullabies.

Sos hermosa

From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 2, 2009

Tenia yo 1

This is an accumulative song, the characters and their arrangement remind us of those of the song Had Gadya in the Hagada of Pesach.

Tenia yo 3

From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 In this renewed rendition of this accumulative song, the characters and their arrangement remind us of those of the song Had Gadya in the...

Previous Page1 Page2 Page3 Page4 Page5 Next